Fedora (formerly Fedora Core) is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora has a reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and working closely with upstream Linux communities. The default desktop in Fedora is the GNOME desktop environment and the default interface is the GNOME Shell. Other desktop environments, including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE and Cinnamon, are available. Fedora Project also distributes custom variations of Fedora called Fedora spins. These are built with specific sets of software packages, offering alternative desktop environments or targeting specific interests such as gaming, security, design, scientific computing and robotics.

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Version: 30Rating: 10Date: 2019-09-07Votes: 6

Currently running Fedora 30 workstation on my main laptop.
Runs smooth and stable no real complaints other than all the security stuff gets in my way sometimes.
That may not be a problem for a lot of users.

Great OS just a few things I don't like which there is always going to be something one does not like on any Distro.

Have not had one problem as far as a bug or something not working properly save for a few tools that I tried to use that are not from the official repos.

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Version: 30Rating: 10Date: 2019-09-04Votes: 15

I have to say this...
As a long-time arch user (approx 5 years) i though that i will give fedora a try. I was tired of continuously problems with arch, sometimes little change in configuration absorb you for all day because every thing you want to change you have to edit in console and going through many pages of manuals or wiki. Since i installed Fedora on my desktop and laptop, everything works out of box and you can believe me or not but this is faster than arch (my hardware is ryzen 2600 oc and gtx 1060) ! Delta updates and simultaneous download of multiple packages is very cool feature. I'm so impressed that this distro is so polished and works well. I have a hope that such distro as Fedora can someday replace w|nd0w$.